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Artificial Sweeteners linked to weight

Summary: Researchers found out when testing on rats, when eating the yogurt with zero-calorie saccharin, they consumed more and gained more weight. The researchers said this is because
“salient orosensory stimulus,” what is does it predicts that someone is about to pit in a lot of calories. The Ingestive and digestive reflexes gear up for that intake but when false sweetness isn’t followed by a lot of calories, it gets confused. As a result people may eat more then they usually would.
Significance: This is important because it shows how our body works and also it shows how we’ve changed and modernized our food and it’s backfiring on us. We are so focused on our self image we’re doing so much things to try to make things convient for us in short term. Today people are all about short term and don’t focus on cons or what could happen to them in the long run.

http://www,biologynews.net/archives/2008/02/11/artificial_sweeteners_linked_to_weight_gain.html